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SNW is a good balance. Discovery on the other hand, was way too emotional for me. Where is STSA on the crying-every-other-scene scale?
My main problem with DIS has a name: Michael Burnham. Not the actress, the script.
And about your question: no, the crying is only in scenes that work (traumatic or sentimental enough) unlike DIS.
Yeah, Burnham could have been better and she was the center too much. I like Discovery as a show, but I hate it as Star Trek because it actively goes out of its way eschew so many baseline Trek Tropes, the biggest and most obvious being the Spore Drive. It feels like the writers were like "We don't want to deal with the time issues of Warp travel.". Then they extended this to the personal transports, which at least made sense as it was the 32nd century.
it was pretty much a push"woman can have masculine names too" kind of preachy attitude from Kurtzman, and not just ambigious name that be either gender. it still an awful name to begin with.
I don't mean the name itself. I mean the way Michael behaves. Even more when you think that she was adopted by a Vulcan family.
I found Discovery the same way, it's the only trek series I couldn't make it through.
Picard suffered from bad writing unfortunately. Season 3 cashed in on nostalgia and I appreciate it for that, but the first 2 seasons were very meh.
Starfleet academy is great though, IF you're ok with a show targeted to young adults. If you're not ok with that, the episodes will be very hit and miss. The most recent episode was fantastic, once you get through the 3 minute long sex scene it opened with. Even that does serve a purpose though to show the bond that's developed between two chars.
Oh, I don't talk about Picard. Too much WTF.
STA is another "SGU-like" i only see it will end quickly.
Yeah you're wrong. I could barely make it through a few episodes of SGU, but STA is much better.
S2 of SGU was great
It had its moments
STSA feels like a blend of Lower Decks and Discovery to me. I also had issues with Discovery (though it got better after the time jump) but have been enjoying Academy each week.
The SAM episode was a little meh, personally, but I like that they're dealing with the shorter season format and still doing episodes based around each character.